The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project has welcomed nine new volunteers. They have travelled from the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland and France to accompany at-risk human rights defenders. New volunteers are currently being sought whose placement would begin in July/August 2020. The deadline to apply is October 11. Last Read more…
Reuters reports, “Colombia’s top administrative court on [September 17] clarified that a moratorium on fracking it upheld last week does not prevent ‘investigative’ pilot projects, surprising both oil companies and environmental activists.” The President of the Council of State says, “The court advises that the reach of this decision does Read more…
On September 26, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted, “Yesterday we accompanied UVOC [the Verapaz Union of Peasant Organizations] to a hearing in Cobán for the presentation of evidence in the case of the La Primavera community.” PBI-Guatemala adds, “The agrarian conflict between the owner of the farm and the Read more…
On September 25, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project posted on its Facebook page, “#PBIaccompanies Consorcio Oaxaca in the State Congress for the debate on the decriminalization of abortion.” PBI-Mexico adds, “The 42 deputies will vote on the initiative to reform the State Constitution and Criminal Code that would allow women Read more…
A still from a short PBI-Mexico video (with English subtitles) about the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students. On September 26, Peace Brigades International-Canada attended an Amnesty International-organized gathering in Ottawa to mark the 5th anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in the state of Read more…
This statement was originally posted on the Peace Brigades International global website: This week, the United Nations General Assembly meets in New York to discuss the current state of affairs in climate change. The UN has organised the Climate Action Summit this year to bring world leaders together to discuss Read more…
Photo of Rosario Godoy de Cuevas addressing a GAM rally two months before she was assassinated on April 4, 1985. Peace Brigades International was founded on September 4, 1981 in Canada and placed its first team in Guatemala on March 21, 1983. In Unarmed Bodyguards, Liam Mahony and Luis Enrique Read more…
The work of Peace Brigades International-Canada is sustained by individual donors like yourself. When you donate to PBI-Canada you support: 1- The writing of daily updates on the human rights defenders that PBI accompanies. PBI works on the principle that the higher profile the human rights defender the less likely Read more…
Three Colombian environmental activists will be speaking in Canada at a critical moment with respect to fracking, human rights and the peace process in their country. Julia Figueroa and Andrea Nocove from the Luis Carlos Perez Lawyers’ Collective (CCALCP) and Ivan Madero from the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Read more…
The Luis Carlos Perez Lawyers’ Collective (CCALCP), an organization of eight women lawyers, has signed a civil society statement expressing concerns about recent comments made by former Colombian Vice-President Germán Vargas Lleras in El Tiempo. Vargas Lleras wrote, “I think it is also time for the country to know which Read more…